The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-11-24

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healed them of divers diseases" Said
he: "My dying congregation, this is a
terrible text. Disease is N the world.
The smallpox Stays its hundreds, the
cholera its thousands and the yellow
fever its tens of thousands, but, in the
language of the text, if you take the
divers, you are gone. These earthly doc.
tors can cure smallpox, cholera and yell
low fever if they get there in time, but
nobody but the good Lord can cure the
divers.
- California has some big orchards,
and the largest is in the suisun valley,
and is owned by A. T. Hatch, president
of the California Fruit Union. Mr.
Hatch has 200 acres in pear trees, 1SO in
peaches, 70 in apricots 10 in nectarines,
2lO in almonds, 40 in cherries, 100 in
plums and prunes, besides 40 acres in
currents and gooseberries and hundreds
of lemon and orange trees. Of these
acres 800 bore fruit this season to the
amount of 1000 tons, which brought the
owner 100000. He calculates that when
the whole orchard is in full bearing it
will produce 5000 tons of fruit, worth
100000.
The London Times states that a
scheme for the erection of a bridge over
the English channel is in active consid-
GRAFTON among the French capitalists and
engineers. The projected bridge would
be % miles long, resting on piers of con.
crete aud masonry 100 feet long by 100
broad, placed at intervals of $50 yards.
The causeway of the bridge would be 16o
feet above the sea level, to permit the
passage of ships, and would be 100 feet
wide. The estimated COSTS 5000, 100000.
It appears that the channel is not so
deep as is generally supposed. There
are shadows out from Folkestone not
over 20 feet from the surface, the depth
from these shadows to the shore on either
side varying from 100 to 100 feet.
"A bill will, it is understood be in.
troduced at this session of the Legislature
which has for its object the advancement
of female ed. ,ation, and in particular
the fitting Of female teachers for their
work. This bill will provide for an
appropriation by the Legislature of $3.50
to each county to defray the expense of
one lady teacherfrom each county to be
sent to the Winthrop Ttaiiuing School at
Columbia. The selection will be made
by competitive examination in each
county of applicants who seek to fully
qualify themselves for the profession of
teaching, by taking the advanced course
in the institution designated in the
methods of teaching.
"A strange atmospheric phenomenon
occurred at Maysville, KY, and at Man
chester, Ohio, on saturday afternoon.
The sun all the morning looked like a
ball of fire. At $50 p. m. dense cloud
suddenly lowered upon the two towns,
and five minutes later it was as dark as
night. People became frightened and
business was entirely suspended. Many
of the superstitious thought the end had
come, and began praying. A number of
merchants hastened home from their
stores. Chickens went to roost and cows
went home to be MIXED. In the midst
of the confusion heavy snow storm set
in, and when daylight returned, fifteen
minutes later, the ground was white
The same phenomenon occurred at
Washington Courthouse, Ohio.
= The Chinese giant, Chang, is eight
feet three inches. A giant eight feet
high was exhibited at Rouen in 1855.
Lecat speaks of Scotch giant eleven
feet six inches in height. Carpoius tells
of young giantess who was ten feet
high. The Grecian giant Amanah, now
eighteen years old, is seven feet eight
inches tall. The giant Gille de Trent, in
the Tryol, and one of the guards of the
Duke of Brunswick, was more than seven
feet four inches in height. The Austrian
giant, Winkelmeir, who was recently
exhibited in Paris, measuring eight feet
six inches, may be regarded as speci-
men of the highest stature attained by
the human species. A Swedish peasant,
cited by Button, was eight feet eight
inches in height, and the stature of the
Finish giant, Cujanis, was the same,
while Frederick William, King Of Prus-
sia, had guard of nearly equal stature.
Special Phosphate Commissioner
Roche's forthcoming annual report to
the State legislature shows the condition
of the great phosphate industry of South
Carolina to be in very serious condition.
The stock on hand is very large and the
market extremely dull, producers being
absolutely at the mercy of buyers. Sew
eral companies have suspended opera
tions, and unless a change takes place
further suspensions are imminent. Pro-
ducers are compelled to force sales to
bring in the amount necessary to keep
their works in operation. The commits.
sioner says the situation is extremely
grave and calls for immediate relief from
the General Assembly. Over 100000
tons of rock was mined during the past
year, of this a little over 100000 tons
was river rock, on which the royalty paid
to the State was s2Os,O00.
DIR. Henry Hitler and wife of Will
mipgtop, Mass, do not like the idea Of
their bodies being consigned, when dead,
to the ordinary wooden cofins, are having
constructed for them two ponderous cas-
kets of mahogany, which they hope may
be able to endure for untold ages. The
Killers spent $4,000 on their coffins